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>>198983
Aw yiis give me more of that /hyper/ shit anons, my body craves it
>>198995
I'm the least person who should judge other people's tastes but eugh,
>>198997 is fucking right, Watamote is the single worst manga to ever come out of the industry.
>>199000
No, the artist is a woman and she's engaged with the author who is a man. The author stopped working full time on Watamote's story around the time they introduced the secondary yuri characters.
>>199003
>Is it at least good yuri? We don't have a real /u/ or whatever board here to ask.
Nope. Tomoko's character traits (autism, bisexuality, internet humor, vidya addiction) were all stripped from her and became the secondary characters, now her only defining features is that she cusses and says bad words that good JKs shouldn't be saying. Humor is beyond saving, art is such a drop in quality compared to the original run that it's amazing people still feel the need to read it. It now caters to the lowest common denominator of Japanese otaku consumer (the yurifags), the same guys that the manga was making fun of for like 100+ chapters.
>>199004
>didn't the anime flop? is WataMote still a thing beyond internet memes?
The anime got decent exposure with Western audiences and flopped spectacularly in Japan. Otakus got extremely ass ravaged that someone would dare show how an autist like them will end up in society (alone and deranged), so they boycotted both manga and anime. Then I believe their editor flat out asked them to change the story a bit to find newer audiences and that's why it fucking sucks now.
>>199009
>I wasn't even aware that this was yuri. What a fucking pile of shit.
It wasn't always like this. The transformation was really gradual, actually.
The original manga started as a bit of a gamble, the artist woman got inspired by cuckchan/Futaba/general imageboard culture, so she made a cringe comedy starring the typical otaku stereotype, except female
of note the fact that Tomoko was NOT originally a fujoshi as much as just a male otaku. Gradually the series got picked up by cuckchan where the core of the fanbase lies to this day, but as I said it never really reached Eastern audiences that much because it stroke too close to home. After a while of making otaku jokes, they switched to making it a Rick and Morty but Japanese type of series, with Tomoko referencing western shit like My Little Pony
helped by the fact that IIRC the voice actress for Tomoko was also dubbing one of the main characters there. Then when the series was losing steam it just turned Tomoko into a single joke character, where all she does is say "dick" or make immature jokes, completely ignoring her depth and character. Finally, as a stroke of genius, they decided to introduce all those nameless, faceless characters from the anime as part of the main cast, leading to the dreaded School Trip Arc, and ever since then Tomoko has been gay.
Actually it's even worse than that: every single chapters can be summed up as such:
>A secondary character walks to school or is sitting in school
>Another secondary character talks to her about how quirky and weird Tomoko is
>Both characters agree but misread the other one's statement, thinking Tomoko must be a great person or something
>Tomoko appears like, one panel per chapter unless there's pages that can wink to the yurifags to say a cuss word
It's so tiresome, the chapters are still named "Because I'm Not Popular, I'll do X" but by this point the entire school talks more about Tomoko than anything else combined.
>>199013
>Why does this feel like reactionary to Nagatoro popularity surpassing Watamote?
Because it probably is. Watamote lost all of its core demographic once they pandered too hard to trendy people, then they found a new one, milked them for all their worth and is now stranded in a limbo where it's irrelevant as a series despite being one of the most influential in the internet age.